Antonin Tron’s Balmain Debut Had a Healthy Dose of Stylistic Geekdom

When I meet Antonin Tron, a month or so before his debut at Balmain , there’s a slender black dress in the corner of his very white studio. The skirt is wool jersey, long, ruched along the leg, seamed into a narrow bodice of black silk velvet, long-sleeved and high-necked. It looks striking, modern, an unexpected juxtaposition of materials, a sensuality that ties in with Tron’s work for Atlein, the label he founded a decade ago. The dress, conversely, is 80 years old, and ithellip;

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